Stories by Paul Kallender

More good news for those of us still waiting for practical fuel cells for our gadgets; Sony has developed a new technology that it says could help produce the world's most efficient DMFC (direct methanol fuel cell) yet.

AMD has started shipping a new version of its dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processor, which is considerably cheaper than the company's previous dual-core chips.

Canon is launching four camcorders for the international market in the coming months, and the lineup includes its first models that record to DVD.

The Tablet PC market is set for steady growth between now and the end of the decade, research firm In-Stat said Wednesday.

In what could be a step forward in the development of quantum cryptography systems, a Japanese laboratory has demonstrated that it can send quantum keys through an optical switch designed for normal optical communications.

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) has promised better hardware and software tools to help developers make games for the company's upcoming PlayStation 3 games console, the company said last week.

Nearly all of hard disk drive maker Seagate Technology's products will use perpendicular recording technology by the end of 2006, the company's chief financial officer (CFO) said Tuesday.

NEC is developing a technology that allows users to flip back and forth between wireless LAN and mobile phone networks even when they are moving at race car speeds, the company said Tuesday.

PalmOne became Palm, Thursday. The PDA maker has also changed its logo to a new design that will appear on products later in the year.

Tokyo-based anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro said that a bug in its own software that affected thousands of customers has cost the company YEN 903 million (AU$10.7 million). The issue has also forced it to lower its revenue and profit forecasts for the April to June quarter, the company said Thursday.

A fuel cell technology that will offer a quick fix for dead or dying mobile phone batteries looks as if its going to be available for millions of people for the first time in the world in Japan in 2007, Japan's two biggest mobile communications carriers said Wednesday at the Wireless Japan 2005 Expo.

Memory technology developer Rambus hopes the widely-anticipated graphics performance of the upcoming PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console will push PC makers to adopt the company's technology, Rambus CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Harold Hughes said in an interview last week.

A start-up that's developed a high capacity holographic storage technology has received money from several investors including Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba.

Rambus has souped up its memory technology to let memory chips talk to graphics processors much more quickly than they do today. The technology should lead to better pictures from games consoles and high-end PCs, the company said Thursday.

A new Japanese telecommunications carrier plans to launch a national wireless network by the end of 2006 that will offer voice and data services using the emerging WiMax network technology combined with city-based WLANs (wireless LANs), a company backing the carrier said on Wednesday.